Hill v. Houk’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1940
13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on City of Demopolis v. Webb · Reed v. Mayor of Birmingham · Attorney General v. Lakeview Land Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The bill is clearly not one for the specific performance of a verbal contract for the sale of land, nor for the enforcement of a parol gift of land, but for the protection of a public easement, to the end of preventing a diversion of the use of the property from the one to which it was dedicated. The equity of the bill is beyond serious controversy. City of Demopolis v. Webb, 87 Ala. 666 , 6 South. 408 ; 4 Pom. Eq. Juris. §§ 1350, 1351, and notes; High on Injunctions, § 855; 14 Cyc. p. 1216; 22 Cyc. p. 898. Under the act ‘to provide for the redistricting of the public schools of the state and for the management and control of same’ (Gen. Laws 1903, p. 289), the district trustees are charged with the care of all school property, and the title to all such property is vested in them, and concurrently with the county board of education they are charged with the further duty of employing teachers and of making use of the property for school purposes. As representatives of the public it is their duty to conserve the right of the public to the use of public school property for public school purposes and to prevent the diversion or destruction of that use; and to accomplish this end these officers have the same right to resort to the chancery court for injunctive relief, when necessary, as the proper municipal officers of a city have, or the Attorney General of a state has, when the rights of the people of the city or state are invaded. The right to bring bills of this character, in”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.